How To
Working with open aid information and data sometimes needs developers to build tools, but often you will find there are freely accessible tools already available to help you achieve what you want. In this section you will find step by step how to guides for working with aid information.
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Many of the step-by-step recipes are also available in the Open Data Cook Book, which includes other ideas and instructions for making use of open data.
In this section...
CSV + Google Refine: the data you want in spreadsheet form
See below for details of how to get the data you need. Summary The IATI XML standard is hard to represent in a simple ‘flat’ spreadsheet structure. Aid activities can …Continue reading
Transforming IATI Data with XSLT
Screenshot and link View shared XSLT Transformations and add your own on GitHub. Summary XML Style Sheet Transformations (XSLT) provide a way to reformat XML data for use in different …Continue reading
Yahoo pipes for mixing, filtering and converting data
Screenshot and link View a step by step recipe for creating your own yahoo pipes here, an example pipe to filter DFID files here, and an example for merging two …Continue reading
API Access to the IATI Registry
Automated access to the IATI registry for developers… Continue reading
